UHT-H264E-FME

The Alma Technologies UHT-H264E-FME IP core is a scalable ultra-high throughput H.264 encoder. It is designed to enable 4K UHD resolutions in
power- and cost-effective FPGA and ASIC implementations. Powered by a highly featured Full Motion Estimation engine, this encoder is the most
advanced one of our UHT H.264 IP cores and offers best-in-class compression for
applications needing advanced H.264 efficiency for high-quality low bitrate video encoding. Encapsulating the longstanding Alma Technologies
expertise with H.264, the encoder offers perceptually optimized image quality and includes valuable technology, such as its high-quality
low-latency Intra-Refresh encoding option.

The UHT-H264E-FME can be configured to support Baseline, Main and High profiles, 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 chroma sampling, and up to 12-bit per component color
depth. It can be also used for high frame rate SD to Full HD interlaced or progressive video encoding. The core is very easy-to-use and integrate
in a system. It is an autonomous, CPU/GPU-less, complete H/W implementation, accepting video input in standard raster scanned interleaved order
and producing ready-to-use H.264 NAL byte-stream output.

The UHT-H264E-FME is based on a scalable architecture that uses a configurable number of internal, parallel processing, engines. This is done in a way
which is totally transparent to the system utilizing the IP, abstracting all the parallelization complexity from the rest SoC design and operation.
In addition to the configurable number of internal engines that matches the throughput requirements to the available silicon speed, the encoder
can be further fine-tuned before synthesis to save silicon area by removing features that are not needed in a certain implementation.

The UHT-H264E-FME core implements a simple and flexible, requests based, external memory interface with independent read and write data paths.
The external memory I/F is also designed to be tolerant to memory delays and latencies, which may be present in a shared memory system architecture.

Being carefully designed and rigorously verified the UHT-H264E-FME is a reliable and easy-to-use and integrate IP.